The National Labor Relations Board has upheld an agency judge's decision finding that an Ohio painting contractor unlawfully maintained overly broad work rules, but expressed concerns about how the judge handled a board prosecutor's move to amend the case to include the allegations.
An ongoing lawsuit accusing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of fostering a hostile working environment for transgender employees demonstrates how external messaging from employers — whether in government or the private sector — can fuel workplace discrimination claims, experts said.
Starbucks did not violate federal labor law when a manager told an employee that she would leave a Wisconsin store if workers unionized, the National Labor Relations Board held, saying the remark was an opinion about the effects of unionizing that the law's free speech provision allows.